Monday, 17 January 2005

Army of Mixes

I have read
that Björk was asking fans and musicians to submit remixes or cover version of Army
of Me for a 10th anniversary 2cd release of the song. The money
made of the sales would go to charity.

I didn’t
give it much thought, because I had no idea how I could remix the song, much
less re-arrange it.

But then
Simon talked about it as well, and the idea grew in me. Why not? W.h.a. was a
goldmine in terms of musical ideas. There was enough to fill a whole opera.

So I spent
the whole Sunday writing the arrangement and the programming on the computer,
then recording my vocals with my old microphone. I tested the result on
Aurélien who passed it. At one o’clock
in the morning the song was sent to Björk’s website. Que sera sera!